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Love Bug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-03 01:03 PM
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LOL! Foxnewsonline has the sobig virus!
Edited on Wed Sep-03-03 01:09 PM by Love Bug
I get emails for our website email box and we've been getting lots of those damn sobig virus-infected emails. I just delete them. I noticed I just got one from "foxnewsonline@foxnewsonline.com" I wonder if anyone there was a big enough doorknob to actually open that sobig attachment?
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-03 01:07 PM
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1. OReilly
big enough doorknob for ya? :D
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Enraged_Ape Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-03 01:07 PM
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2. Or a 3rd party has you AND foxnewsonline in their addresses...
or in a message in your Outlook boxes.

I'm not completely familiar with SoBig, but doesn't it spoof return e-mail addresses from those it finds in someone's Outlook?
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Love Bug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-03 01:10 PM
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3. We don't use Outlook here (thank ghod!)
but yeah, I think it reads your address list in Outlook and send emails to everyone on it. I just like to think some moran there would be dumb enough to open the attachment! :dunce:
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Melsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-03 01:23 PM
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4. It does spoof email addresses
I don't use outlook, but I have two hotmail addresses. They were both in someone's outlook address book, and one of mine was spoofed as the sender. It's creepy to get a virus that looks like you sent it to yourself.

I do think there are plenty of people at Faux dumb enough to open a virus email though!
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KC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-03 01:33 PM
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5. Yep
I got one from my yahoo email ..and it looks like it was
sent from me to myself


KC
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